The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-12-14
Live Stock Notes.

| points should be considered when selecting
for breeding purposes.
Live Stock Notes.
Linseed meal should not be fed to very
young pigs except in small quantities and
not very often, as it is too much of a laxa-
tive for them.
A Colorado man says that he has made
more money by furnishing lambs to butch
ers than by anything he has ever tried be-
fore in Colorado.
There is no necessity for having the colt
IN fat condition. Keep it growing, and
aim to get the largest frame possible be-
fore 1T becomes three years old.
Give in winter cooked food-fed slightly
warm, as it is pretty sure to be-is eaten
more rapidly and does more good than
that uncooked. Cows increase their yield
of milk on ii, and all animals thrive better
than previously.
1t is said that !, 900 sheep kept on piece
of ground one year will make the soil cap
able of yielding grain enough-over and
above the capacity of the soil without the
sheep manure-to support 1,O35 sheep an
entire year.
1t has been estimated that cattle disease
in the past forty-ive years has cost Great
Britain $500, 100000. Commissioner Col
man recommends a cattle quarantine
! against all Europe, which has been the hot
bed of diseases which sfterward afflicted
this country.
Roots should not be fed with straw or
poor hay, as they are too much alike in
composition. Feed the roots with clover
or good hay, and give the more concen-
trated food with the straw. 1t requires
| more skill to be successful in feeding poor
than rich kinds of food.
It is fact that dogs seldom attack sheep
| kept with cattle, unless in the case of
some old rogue, and then when the sheep
are found at a considerable distance, for
the instinct of the cattle is to attack ami
mails found chasing or worrying other
stock near them,
Prof. Storer says ration of thirty pounds
of pumpkin per COW daily will increase the
flow and improve the quality of milk.
More than this quantity should not be
given. Pumpkins are very cheap food, as q
couple of tons can be grown to the acre with
the corn crop. The seeds of the pumpkin
ought to be removed before feeding.
The National Horse breeder of DeIavin,
Wis, asserts with an air ot great conf
dence that there is more clear money
made in raising good horses, if it is done
judiciously, than in any other kind of
stock. The farmer who has a few good
horses to turn into money every year is
considered well-off.
A pig that, while eating, takes his head
out of the trough and acts as if the slop
had run the wrong way, has the SMILES.
he should be removed from the herd aud
cared fer, as the disease is contagious. Put
| pine tar in the slops and smear both the
nose and face with il. Feed sulphur and
turpentine; free use Of carbolic acid, both
externally and internally, should also be
made.
The wastes OF the garden will highly b,
enjoyed by the porkers. Cabbage Leaves
and stalks, with the small sweet potatoes
and other things not valuable for family
, | use, and can not be stored for the pigs il
the cold days, had better be fed to then
, now than allowed to decay. Ordinarily
these things are not considered of much
|, value, but when vegetation is scarce, as /
} is now, it is well to make use of what vi
often look upon as tritieS
While it is claimed that the improve,
mutton breeds of sheep pay well, they C II
not be kept on the farm in the same man
ner usual with common sheep. They de
. mand good pasture, liberal feeding AM
attention, but they pay well for the car
bestowed. There is great demand for SUI
perior mutton, and bright prospects are il
, store for those farmers who will make nut
ton sheep a speciality and are willing t
. give them the same treatment that is gvel
, to such sheep in England.
] Mr.. T. Z. Welfear, who manages a her
of eighty COWS, stated in paper on dair
farming, at a meeting of the Tunbridg
Wells (England) Farmers Club, that in il
purity the Jersey cow was somewhat de-
3 icate animal, and when out OF profit woul
yield little for grazing purposes. He sal
1 the shorthorn Jersey, the Sussex Jersey O
the Kerry jersey was, however, nearly,
2 not quite, equal to most pure-bred Jersey
i in milk yielding, and a much more hard
and serviceable animal for general pul
! poser.
s Nc farmer should undertake early breed
Y ing with the hope that the March wind
v will be tempered to save his pigs, IL the
/. are narrowed In q fence corner. The con
). ing March may be as quiet and gentle as
l. lamb, fayoring the Improvident pig grove
a While there is always possibility OF th
"a condition of affairs, it is entirely safe
= prepare for the worst. IL you cannot she
y against the fisrcest winds, you had bett'
r. not allow the pigs to come at that time
II National Stockman.
No better evidence OF the advantage
raising sheep for mutton rather than II
wool can be given than the fact that In Fl
gland, where rents OF farms are very higl
d, the mutton breeds are considered indil
& pensible ito successful farming. Wool
= regarded rs only by.product OF the sheeI
y In this country, on the contrary, wool
!, considered of greater importance than II
y mutton, but sheep here do not pay as gre
g trofits as those in England. Every thir
% depends on the mode of management. o.
y farmers compel sheep to forage, while
= England they are treated as carefully as a
u cattle.
The treatment which colts receive has
at telling effect upon them when they a
ID grown up, says an expert horsems